Dick Durbin

[wendybeth]

I think people understand completely what they want to do to us, Jeff, but I really don't think holding a bunch of people indefinitely- with no trial or due process of any sort- is making us any safer. What about the borders? Air safety? Port security? There are so many terrorists and potential terrorists out there that we can't possibly catch and incarcerate them all, and it just seems to me that the logical thing to do is make it more difficult for them to enter our country. In the meantime, do we really have to compromise our priciples and standards so very much? If we do, then they have already won. We have fought many wars with people who wanted nothing more than to eliminate us from the face of the earth, and we will never be safe from outside threats. I agree that there are many organizations that have blinders on, namely the UN, Amnesty International, the ACLU, etc, and they do a lot of things that really piss me off, but at the same time they have done a lot of good for this world.

I really am saddened by the willingness to give up so much of what makes our country great, all in the guise of short term safety. It is an illusion- we are no safer now than we were Sept. 10th, 2001. We have done some good thngs since then, such as (apparently) getting rid of the Taliban , but we have also done so many ugly, vicious things, and too many innocents are getting hurt.